
According to the ACLU, nearly 60% of people in women’s prison nationwide, and as many as 94% of some women’s prison populations, have a history of physical or sexual abuse before being incarcerated. For many survivors, their experience of domestic violence, rape, and other forms of gender violence are bound up with systems of incarceration and police violence. In response, local and national organizations launched the Survived and Punished project in 2015 which illuminates the “gender violence to prison pipeline,” providing a structural analysis for and political challenge to the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
The Feminist Anti-Carceral Policy & Research Initiative (FACPRI) will build on this surge of organizing in two ways. First FACPRI will collaborate with Survived and Punished as they develop a policy strategy to create sustained routes out of prison for survivors of violence. Second, FACPRI will support efforts to address the lack of research and theory about the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and how gender violence is integral to carcerality.
- No Selves to Defend, 2017
- Survived and Punished Symposium, 2015
- Race, Domestic and Sexual Violence: From the Prison Nation to Community Resistance, 2013
- Prof. Angela Y. Davis delivers lecture at symposium, Race, Domestic and Sexual Violence: From the Prison Nation to Community Resistance, Photo b Mona T. Brooks
- Mimi Kim, Alisa Bierria, Angela Y. Davis, Beth E. Richie, Wilda White, and Mary Louise Frampton at the Race, Sexual, & Domestic Violence: From the Prison Nation to Community Resistance Photo by Mona T. Brooks
- Race, Sexual, & Domestic Violence: From the Prison Nation to Community Resistance Photo by Mona T. Brooks